Bibliotheca Historica

​But although they had delivered their fatherland from dangers by their own device and had averted the war, they were unable to escape the estrangement with the young men; for the latter, returning from the battle and hearing what had been done, became fiercely angry at their own kinsmen because of their exceeding goodwill toward Alcetas.

​And at first, seizing a part of the city, they voted to set fire to the houses, and then to pour out of the city with their arms, and, holding to the mountainous country, to plunder the territory subject to Antigonus; but later, changing their minds, they abstained from burning the city, but giving themselves up to robbery and raids, they devastated much of the enemy’s country.

​Antigonus, having received the body and having mutilated it for three days, left it unburied when the corpse began to decay, and decamped from Pisidia. But the young men of Termessus, keeping their goodwill toward the mutilated man, recovered the body and buried it splendidly. Thus the nature of beneficence, having a certain unique attraction toward those who have done good, preserves goodwill toward them unalterable.

​Antigonus, at any rate, decamping from Pisidia, advanced toward Phrygia with his entire force. When he arrived at Cretopolis, Aristodemus of Miletus came to him, reporting that Antipater had died, and that the supreme command of the empire and the guardianship of the kings had devolved upon Polyperchon the Macedonian.

​Elated by these events, he was high in his hopes and resolved to take hold of affairs in Asia and to yield the supreme authority over it to no one. Such, then, was the situation of Antigonus.